Gail Harker, L.C.G.I.
Gail lived and taught City & Guilds Creative Studies in Britain for 20 years, and was, for many years, an External Verifier for the City & Guilds Institute. Gail has taught and continues to teach all of the Certificate Courses in Design and Embroidery at the La Conner center. She has written five books on embroidery, with her latest, Creative Machine Embroidery, recently published in both Britain and the US.
Penny Peters
Penny holds a BA from UC Davis in Social Studies and the Arts. In 2004 she added the City & Guilds Diploma in Design and Embroidery to her other City & Guilds Certificates. Her deep professional and personal commitment to education drive her continued study in Art, Design and Stitch. She assists in a number of capacities at our center, notably teaching and demonstrating in her area of specialty, Design and Hand Stitch.
Barbara Gilbert
Barbara is a textile artist and embroiderer. Barbara, a retired Home Economics teacher, has a life long interest in textiles and embroidery. She is an active member of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Victoria, the Vancouver Guild of Embroiderers’ and the Embroiderers’ Association of Canada. Barbara has completed both the Level 4 Diploma in Experimental Research for Advanced Design and Level 4 Diploma in Experimental Stitch and Multi Media courses at the center. She also has a Level 3 Certificate in Design and Craft (Stitched Textiles) in the Context of Embroidery awarded by the City and Guilds of London Institute and the Level 2 Certificate in Design and Textile Decoration Techniques awarded by the Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts.
Christina Fairley Erickson
Christina graduated with her degree in Level 4 Advanced Research for Design and holds a Level 3 Certificate in Advanced Experimental Stitch. She is currently working on her degree in Level 4 Studies for Experimental Stitch and Multimedia. Her stitched artwork and quilts have been displayed both nationally and internationally. She has taught "Embroider, Embellish, Enrich - Surface Design on Fabric" and "Image Editing with Photoshop" at the Lake WA Institute of Technology, as well as teaching textile art to quilt/fiber art groups and on a Holland America cruise.